Peter Barnes

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Once a rag.......

 

[Dr Mick]

Went off him after he signed for the rags. Saw him in The Sandpiper in Fallowfield one night, he was wearing a beige polo-neck sweater and looked a bit of a ****. Bet he didn't do a Gary Owen and cry like a baby when we sold him and he was no Kenny Clements (legend) but given the passage of time I'd definitely put him up there with the other City greats of that era.

 

[kippax81]

I was right behind the goal when he dummied Pat Jennings and dinked it over him in another City romp over Tottenham 5-0. One of the all time great Maine Road goals from that era in my opinion.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEPRA-GzQU4[/youtube]

Hells bells that was some side we had back then. Absolutely criminal the way the departures of most of those players was allowed to happen.

On a side note, I won a fiver that day on the golden corner and golden goal thingy on the back of the program. 0055 for the first corner ;-)

 

[tidyman]

115 games. 15 goals.

One of the greatest players the club has ever had?

He was pretty good on his day but like most wingers, those days were sporadic at best.

Nothing against him but also one of the most boring men who's ever walked the planet.

 

[sir baconface]

Never one of our greatest players. Not consistent enough and little fire in his belly as I recall.

 

[Silva Citizen]

Barnes and Owen were both crap in 78/79 - especially Barnes.
Maybe had something to do with the awful winter.
I think we really needed to replace Dennis Tueart with someone similar rather than completely rebuild at the time.
Allison wanted to play without wingers - hence Barnes was sold; makes sense in that context but obviously whatever Mal was trying to do didn't quite work out, albeit he only had a season and a little bit to try it.
Who knows - maybe if we hadn't appointed Bond the players Allison had bought would have gelled and we would not have gone bust and got relegated from all the extra spending Bond did which left us completely skint and with no squad in the year we went down.

Lest We Forget --- Bobby Shinton

 

[Vienna_70]

I was right behind the goal when he dummied Pat Jennings and dinked it over him in another City romp over Tottenham 5-0. One of the all time great Maine Road goals from that era in my opinion.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEPRA-GzQU4[/youtube]

Some cracking goals in that game.

Is it correct that Barnes' dink over Jennings was one of the first examples of that particular skill?

 

[hallstreetblue]

Think it may be time to move on.

I'm guessing your young and only know this era, so couldn't care less for our past. For those of us that do care, we have fond memories of such players, who are a big part of our history. So after watching clips of on our past, I was reminded of what an absolute star this lad was and think we'd have had a few more trophies to our name, had things been done differently. That's all.

Don't know if I should call myself a **** or not can't remember if I booed to long ago to remember. Of course our [size=150[color=#4000FF]]history ( if we had any)[/color][/size] is important, just more concerned with beating WBA and catching the Arse at the moment, as for being young I wish.

Well at that point, we had 2 titles, 2 League Cups, 4 F.A. Cups, a European Cup Winners Cup and 3 Charity Shields. Of course we had history.

 

[MCFCinUSA]

115 games. 15 goals.

One of the greatest players the club has ever had?

He was pretty good on his day but like most wingers, those days were sporadic at best.

Nothing against him but also one of the most boring men who's ever walked the planet.

I remember him as being young & exciting to watch in his first & seminal stint at the club, and saw him get seven bells knocked out of him at Maine Road when he played against the Italian U21 side - with a couple of very dirty defenders in their team. He looked like he'd been in a boxing match.

My favourite player of that era though was Kiddo.

 

[mkblue]

I was recently on a legends tour (excellent by the way) peter was the legend and a absolute gent, he said that the last thing he ever wanted was to leave city, i true blue